One Plus 7 Full Review & Specs

One Plus 7 Full Review

One Plus 7 Full Review One plus seven Pro box you're probably wondering why it's there because I've already unboxed the seven pro fact I've been using it now for a while so this article is gonna serve as kind of like a combo Article I'm gonna tell you about my thoughts and whatnot about this device considering I've been using it now for a couple of weeks but first things first I got this other version so if you recall from the original Article I own bought this guy right here the nebula blue they came out with another color this one is almond I believe is what they're calling it yeah almond and I like almonds so yeah see what is what an apple call this color see that you could call that almond if you want ooh got a pearl essence to it look at that Wow depending on the angle with which you view it compared to the iPhone yeah I'd say it's pretty similar what is iPhone caught what do they call it just go they just call that gold same as the other one obviously triple camera setup a bit more predominant on this unit because it's up against the lighter color you have to pop up camera you already saw it you already know so I guess you can pick between the two now that it's out there nebula blue and almond let me know in the comments which is the more popular what about my feelings about the phone what about my feelings about the device man I've been using a lot of phones lately so I've got a lot to reflect on compared to pretty much all this stuff you'd be considering if you were in the price territory of this particular device the oneplus 7 pro but I think that's kind of the comparison you're making now this one has gone upmarket targeting those types of devices and rightfully so to be honest the most striking thing about this device and you may have heard this already from others it's just the speed of it this is one of the rare cases in which the software on the device I don't want to touch it like I don't want to put a launcher I don't want to do anything to it I just leave it as is it's very close to stock Android in the experience of it but it feels even snappier because of their optimizations and if you want to go a step further you can actually turn off animations complete over on phone buffs channel he did a one-to-one comparison of this device in the s10 and he did his own speed testing which is just like launching different applications closing windows multitasking to see which one is quicker and it's surprising because your first thought on quickness is just like okay it's got a snapdragon 855 so it's gonna be the same well no there's there's little optimizations that affect your day-to-day usage and can actually speed up your behaviour and in the common things that you do frequently like relaunching apps now the snappiness it's also in this display the fact that you have this 90 Hertz display and this is the hardest thing to really put across to you in a Article because you're not you're not able to pick this up right in the recording but it is just unbelievably snappy now it's important to note that not all applications support the full refresh rate and also you can toggle it down to save battery life if you choose to back down to 60 Hertz but when you have these animations toggled down in conjunction with a 90 Hertz display you essentially end up with probably the speediest Senatus smartphone experience that's out there now a lot of that is perception to for example like unlocking the screen see how there's no animation there I turned that off myself because they had that little electrical function going on but it makes it feel slower and I've compared this device the fingerprint unlock to other devices that use an N display fingerprint this still feels faster to me some of it is perception some of it is reality now the other thing about this display I think the other story of this phone is of course the pop-up camera or for me the lack of any camera and the lack of any cut out because I don't really use the front facing camera frequently so all this means for me is full display all the time so if I pop open a Article for example so this just means like zero distraction all display no notch no hole punch just the Article that you're trying to watch and the trade-off is what am motorized camera where I never even used the motor I just don't use the front-facing camera that much I understand the argument against it moving parts I made that argument myself because I'm always trying to pitch both sides of the story now of course one plus they come out they say hey man this this camera unit can withstand all kinds of forces you can lift up a cinder block and all the rest of it so their claim is that it's completely fine regardless battery life has been really good on this device it's a four thousand milliamp hours of course it charges really quickly though that does bring me to one of my criticisms one thing I do miss is the lack of wireless charging I think one plus is at a price premium now where it's like you kind of have to throw it in just because the other manufacturers have it it would just be more convenient and it's one thing that I'm missing so it's a criticism of mine for me to camera is it's not it's not like mind blowing but it's there's been a consolidation of camera quality recently I would say a lot of these things sharing sensors in fact so I'll be sitting here in this studio snapping photos and analyzing pictures but ultimately a lot of those end up on the same back end with the same sensor so that's a picture of the sensor right there IMX 586 and it's on a surprising number of devices I still haven't found a device that for me is as pleasing immediately out of the camera as frequently as the pixel series but this never left me it never left me feeling like I was really truly missing out on anything especially outdoors especially in well-lit environments I have mentioned in previous Articles that you can sometimes enhance the camera performance simply by installing Google's camera software which there inevitably will be a port for that said one plus his own software updates have improved the performance of the camera in the stock camera app that comes via the device so yet the camera it's fine I would say it's in the same territory it's in the same neighborhood as the Samsung stuff there are small attributes and differences you may be able to notice but for me for my money it's a wash so here's the thing okay s10 you picked the s10 I think there's a couple things that you're getting you're getting the brand name you're getting Samsung you're getting a really vibrant rich display you're getting wireless charging obviously you're getting a front facing camera that doesn't require a motor which could be advantageous to you but what are you getting into one plus four a little bit less money at least based on the retail cost of the S time you're getting this no notch experience in conjunction with 90 Hertz in conjunction with the software optimizations that make this the fastest smartphone experience probably you can have right now for me that's a trade worth making for me this is the device I want to have in my pocket right now it's probably gonna be there up until the point there's another pixel to choose from because I'm gonna want to experiment with that camera particularly what Google is doing with their camera software right now the absence of the knotch the lack of distraction the true full screen display the OLED the 90 Hertz and the software is the reason why this will be my pick it's no longer in the value category which I think a lot of people have a right to be upset with that was kind of in the DNA of oneplus was like what can we get for around 500 bucks that was the idea and they've gone upmarket with each generation of phone I think that built those sort of marginal improvements on this one are more significant to me than whatever marginal improvements exist on the Samsung there it is one plus seven Pro Nebula blue almond I'm gonna be on the smartphone for a little while